DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.

The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.

Evidently it's archeology day in SirPentor Land. 800-1000 years old? So cool.

I'd love to believe the wonder of it all but am I the only one that finds this story maybe a little too fantastic? Then again, it is a holy book : or

Yeah, I thought of that myself. However, they appear to have already done an initial verification of it which indicates that it's valid. And they will continue to do more over the next months and years.
The fact that the owner of the land has been ammenible to archeoly on his land in the past indicates to me this is an area where you could expect to find such things.

I'd love to believe the wonder of it all but am I the only one that finds this story maybe a little too fantastic? Then again, it is a holy book : or

It is amazing, but honestly, bogs are great at preserving things, and Ireland is a very old country. If you look into the artifacts in the national museaums there, every once in awhile there's a story about it being found by some farmer planting, or how they were in a field no one would touch for centuries because there was a fairy ring.

It is amazing, but honestly, bogs are great at preserving things, and Ireland is a very old country. If you look into the artifacts in the national museaums there, every once in awhile there's a story about it being found by some farmer planting, or how they were in a field no one would touch for centuries because there was a fairy ring.

In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture.